vulpina was apparently reclassified as crassipes but I have seen both and spoken with Steve Nunn and believe they are different species.
Cheers
Brendan
It is just a scar, a large number of aussie specimens that I collect have war wounds on thier abdomen or are missing limbs. While out collecting the other day I actually stood on a very venomous brown snake that had it's head down a burrow. Maybe it was looking for a feed but I am curious not suicidal so left it to it.
Hi,
Oh bummer. For some reason I knew that they were gonna be a rare type species.Hi,
No, unfortunately these ones are just too damn hard to find, in all the time I've known of these, very VERY few have turned up. They live in sympatry with P.crassipes, but only in tiny populations in isolated areas.
In a strange twist, there may end up some in the UK (only Nicola from the UK on these boards will have a future breeding pair, she's the only one who will possess this species and I have no intentions of exporting them in future). It's a long story as to how THAT happend! The specimens in question were sent out (by myself) as one of my breeding populations of P.crassipes (technically and legally this is accurate, as this species is currently in synonymy with P.crassipes anyway, not my intention, by lucky nonetheless). It was not until later, through some discussion with others more in the know than myself, that the strange population of "P.crassipes" are in fact a valid species, one already described many moons ago
If Nicola is successful, than you may end up seeing them in the US!
Cheers,
Steve
I hope Nicola gets these to successfuly mate, though they'll probably be quite expensive. I would love to own one of these one day. Anyways thanks for the info Steven.
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As soon as some really nice American guy or girl emails me to buy some and the aranges the importort though those nice people at BTBE.
Lucky I have some new bog plants eh.
I reckon 2 euro each is quite good. Dont want to be too greedy.....unlike my bog plants!
